CPD. Conferences. Webinars. Heart.
Inspiring educators since 1994 - online, in print and in the room.
If it's your job to find the very best speakers and trainers for an INSET day, a conference, an online CPD programme or even a student or parent workshop, then let us help you.
We can save you time and money (and make you look good in the process).
With creative ideas for teaching and learning, leadership and well-being, we've been inspiring, motivating and helping transform schools and colleges across the world for 30 years.
Always with our satisfaction guarantee. Always with children and young people at the heart of things. Always highlighting there is another way.
How can we help you?
Independent Thinking is a unique organisation bringing together some of the UK's leading educators, speakers and authors.
We pride ourselves on speakers who are knowledgable, engaging, flexible and grounded in the reality of school life - from classroom practice to leadership and everything in between.
What unites us is our passion for compassionate and creative education with children and young people at its heart.
Established in 1994, Independent Thinking has spent three decades quietly supporting thousands of teachers, school leaders, students, parents and governors throughout the UK and beyond.
Always with the message that there is another way.
Choose One. Or Pick 'n' Mix.
Ian Gilbert • Mark Anderson • Nathan Arnold • Lisa Jane Ashes • Adele Bates • Phil Beadle • Jackie Beere • Tim Benton • Andrew Bernard • David Cameron • Mark Creasy • Simon Cooper-Hind • Dr Andrew Curran • Stephanie Davies • Mark Finnis • Claire Gadsby • Rhia Gibbs • Vic Goddard • Dave Harris • Crista Hazell • David Hodgson • Haili Hughes • Dave Keeling • Martin Illingworth • Nina Jackson • Gill Kelly • Dr Debra Kidd • Alison Kriel • Jonathan Lear • Roy Leighton • Mikey Markham • Dr Matthew McFall • Julie Rees • Jim Roberson • Hywel Roberts • Juliet Robertson • Will Ryan • Jim Smith • Ruth Swailes • Ian Taylor • Andy Vass • Dave Whitaker • Floyd Woodrow
Why Choose Independent Thinking?
More than a speaker's bureau or a training company, there is a family feel to Independent Thinking. Our Associates are proud to have become colleagues and friends belonging to something special - a mission-led organisation that for three decades has prioritised making a difference.
From the moment you make contact and we get back to you 'reassuringly quickly', you can be assured we will do all we can to help you plan an event that will be entertaining, inspiring, useful and memorable - guaranteed!
Nice things our clients are saying about us
What We Do
- Conference keynotes
- Conference workshops
- Full- and half-day INSET
- Twilights
- Live webinars
- Prerecorded sessions
- Books and resources
- Consultancy
Topics. Not buzzwords.
Adaptive teaching • Additional Learning Needs • Aspirations • Assessment • Behaviour • Challenge • Citizenship • Classroom Design • Classroom Management • Coaching • Cognition • Complexity • Conversation and Communication • Creativity • Curiosity • Curriculum Design • Digital technologies • Differentiation • Diversity • Early Years • Employability • Engagement • Entrepreneurship • Environment • Equality • Governance • Humour • Inclusion • Improving Standards • Independent Learning • Kindness • Leadership • Learning • Learning Technologies • Lesson Planning • Literacy • Managing Stress • Managing Workload • Memory • Motivation • Neurodiversity • Neuroscience • Numeracy • Outdoor Learning • Pedagogy • Questioning • Rapport • Relationships • Relational Practice • Resilience • Restorative Practice • School Improvement • SEND • Service Learning • Storytelling • Teaching and Learning • Teaching in Challenging Circumstances • Team Building • Thinking Skills • Thunks • Values-based Education • Well-being • Wonder
Your Satisfaction Guarantee
Ever since we began we have made it clear that if a client is not happy with the outcome, they don't pay.
Simple as.
Our Voice in Print
Through our award-winning Independent Thinking Press, we changed the face of education publishing in the UK.
From important titles like The Working Class and Square Pegs to the Independent thinking On... series of paperbacks and best sellers like When the Adults Change and Messy Maths, these entertaining, inspiring and practical books are genuinely 'our voice in print'.
Speakers Who Stay With You
As our many, many clients testify, there is something special about hearing from an Independent Thinking Associate.
Entertaining, honest, inspiring and challenging yet always practical and down to earth, our Associates are very much 'speakers who stay with you' long after the event has ended.
Our unique CPD Jukebox
We asked our Associates a whole series of topical questions including:
As a secondary teacher, what can I learn from Early Years practice?
How can I best support a child with ADHD in my classroom?
As a school leader, what can I do to make my school more inclusive?
A child has just sworn at me, what should I do next?
Check out their answers to these questions and many more on our unique CPD Jukebox.
Who We Love to Work With
- Teachers
- Leaders
- Middle Leaders
- Students and children
- Parents
- Governors
- Teaching Assistant
- SENDCOs/ALNCOs
- EYFS - Primary - Secondary - FE - HE
- Special schools - Alternative Provision - SEMH settings - Virtual Schools
- State schools - Independent Schools - International schools
A Message From Our Founder
I set up Independent Thinking in 1994 to make a difference to young people in schools.
The grand vision then was 'To change children's lives by changing the way they think. And so to change the world'.
It has been such a pleasure to work with so many great educators over the last three decades, all united in the knowledge that there is always another way.
I still believe that creativity is at the heart of it all, that education is too important to be taken seriously and that the best sort of education can change the world for the better.
But you know that.
Thank you for letting us be part of that ambition with you.
IJG
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See you on the other side.
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Haggle a bit. All acceptable.
Give us a call on +44 (0)1267 211432 or drop us a line at learn@independentthinking.co.uk.
We promise to get back to you reassuringly quickly.